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Daily Archives: November 27, 2014

Thanksgiving proclamations, past and present. I’m glad President Obama looks to the past, but the other proclamations are much stronger in another respect. George Washington, 1789. Abraham Lincoln, 1863. Barack Obama, 2014.

We are forgetting our stories. We are forgetting the stories that once helped forge a national identity. We put so much focus on “multiculturalism,” and hearing other people’s stories, that we no longer tell our common stories. A Darwinian consciousness has gripped America, so that the past is dark, and deluded, and racist, and we…